AUTHOR OF STYLE AND THE MANeS DRESSING THE MAN “In Dressing the Man, Alan Flusser confirms that personal style is not Pea developing an individual sense of what is ele Using some of the great style icons like Cary Grant and the Duke of Ret RS eee aS eee int and wearable. Windsor, Flusser offers a guide to modern, classic dressing that succeeds on all fronts.” Per eet Bre Seen eR. Webster's, a Bacdeker’s, a Machiavelli's, a von Clausewitz’s guide to men's dress. Alan Flusser provides all the answers most men are dying to have eRe ete ees or een eer ee Ss history and sharp insights into well-dressed folks’ ways and ALLS “Beau Brummel was a late-nineteenth-century figure, a famous dandy who was considered to be the most stylish and best-dressed man in London Re eR RO ce ccc New York figure, I feel sure he'd head straight for Alan Flusser and say, ‘Do me.’ Style is something Rie ERR eu raarae Every time I have lunch in the Grill eee eee or eer ee cee eee ene ene ss out the Alan Flusser suits as their wearers walk into the room. It’s a great look, and he writes about it wonderfully in Dressing the Mam. Penns rs “The Duke of Windsor practically invented cont os style. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. popularized itin the U when he looks in a mieror he sees an image of Cary Grant, tie perfectly dimpled, proper amount of re rr eo 50. This wonderful book isa summation of everything Flusser knows about style, and ifit’s male elegance and sophistication you aspire to, Dressing the Renta te ec —Art Cooper. Editor in Chief, GQUSA Sen95 Canada 7495 I Dev is the definitive guide to what men need to know in order to dress well and Jook stylish without becoming fashion victims. Alan Flusser’s name's synonymous with taste and style. With his new book, he combines his encyclopedic knowiedge of men’s clothes with his signature wit and elegance to address the funda- mental paradox of modem men's fashion: Why afer men today have spent_ more money on dlothes than in any other period of history, are there fewer well-dressed men than at any time ever before? According to Flusser, dressing well is notall thar difficul; the real challenge lies in being able tw acquire the right personalized instruction Dressing well pivots on two pillars—proportion and color. Flusser believes that “Permanent Fashionability” both his promise and goal for the reader, starts by accountable to a per. sonal set of physical trademarks and not to any kind of x of fashion flashes. Unlike fashion, which is obliged to change ions, seasonally served-up collection cach season, the face's shape, the neck’s height, the shoulder’s width, the arm's length, the torsos structure, and the foots size remain fairly con stant over time. Once a man learns how to adapt the fundamentals of permanent fashion to his pliysique anl complexion, he's halfway home. “Taking the reader through each major cloth- ing classification step-by-step, this user-friendly ‘guide helps you apply your own specifics to a series of dressing options, from business casual and formalwear to pattern-on-pattern coordina- tion, or how to choose the most flattering eloth- ing silhouette for your body type and shirt collar for your face. AA man's physical traits represent his individ ual road map, and the quickest route toward forg ingan during style of dress is through exposure to the legendary practitioners ofthis rare mascu- Tine art. Flusser has assembled the largest and most diverse collection of stylishly mantled men ‘ever found in one book. Many never-before-scen vintage photographs from the era of Cary Grant, ‘Gontinued om back flop) (ontinued from font fap) Tyrone Power, and Fred Astaire are employed to help illustrate the range and diversity of authen- tic men's fashion, Dresing the Man's sheer magni- tude of options will enable the reader to expand both the grammarand verbiage of his permanent fashion vocabulary For those men hoping to find sartorial ful- fillment somewhere down the road, tethering their journey to the mind-set of permanent fashion will deliver them there earlier rather than later in life ALAN Fussen is the President of Alan Flusser Designs, a company he founded in 1979. He received the 1985 Coty Award as Top Menswear Designer and the first rwo books" ty Sark Award in 1987 for his que contribution to the litera ture of menswear” He attracted national attention for designing Michacl Douglas's wardrobe in the ‘movie Wall Street, as well as acclaim for his work on the HBO movie Barbarians atthe Gate and the film Sees! of a Woman. He is the author of four books. including Style and the Mn, Clothes and the Man, ane Making the Mar, Hle has two daughters and lives in New York Jacket design by Joel Avirom and Jason Snyder Front cover photograpls Getty Archives, Back cover photographs: top: lleraed News, London: mise: Cuber Photos bottom: courtesy of Polo Ralph Lauren ‘Author photograph by James Murray HarperCollinsPublishers ‘ww harpercllin cor